Exam 5: Respiratory System

Which of the following terms is spelled incorrectly?

The term that means a surgical puncture of the chest cavity to aspirate fluid is

A patient with blood in the chest (pleural space) has a

The term laryngospasm is built from which of the following combinations of word parts?

Levels of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the blood are tested by

The suffix that means an instrument used for visual examination is

The suffix -stomy is defined as

The term pulmonology is defined as

The accident victim received a blunt trauma to the chest, which caused blood in the chest cavity or a

Another term for rhinorrhagia is

The combining form that means chest is

The suffix -rrhagia is defined as a

The suffix that means pain is

The prefix that means without, absence of is

Which of the following is the abbreviation for an infectious disease caused by an acid-fast bacillus that usually affects the lungs?

With which disease is an acid-fast bacilli smear used for diagnosis?

The physician informed the patient that he did not have a heart attack and that was not the cause of his chest pain or